Wizards’ Bradley Beal becomes 1st player since Kobe Bryant to score 50 on back-to-back nights

After dropping 60 points in loss to Bulls on Monday, Bradley Beal scored 55 points in Washington Wizards’ loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday.

With his performances, Beal became the first player since Kobe Bryant in 2007 to score at least 50 points on back to back nights.

Per ESPN, Bryant, who was honored in a memorial service on Monday in Los Angeles, scored 60 against Memphis and 50 against New Orleans on March 22-23, 2007, the final two contests of his historic four-game streak of scoring 50 or more points.

“Oh, man, that’s crazy,” Beal said. “Didn’t know that. That’s who Kobe was. That was his drive, and that ceremony today just brought the feeling, the tears all back again.”

Unlike Bryant’s Lakers, who won all four of those games, Beal’s Wizards lost both of his 50-plus games, and the eighth-year guard joined Wilt Chamberlain, James Harden and Devin Booker as the only players in NBA history to score 50 in consecutive games and lose twice. Beal is the first to do so on back-to-back nights.

Beal also became the first Wizards player in franchise history to score 50 in consecutive games. Since the franchise rebranded as the Wizards in 1997, only Michael Jordan had scored even 45 points in back-to-back games for Washington.